by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
How does one describe the unavoidable desire to invest months of work in a technology destined for the aerospace industry in a country like Portugal, which has never launched more than caravels and ships into the sea? Irrationality, perhaps? And what to make of the...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
Imagine “a highway with an uncontrolled crowd of trucks, balls and millions of bullets flying”. This is not just an exercise in creativity: it is what happens in Earth’s orbit. Operational satellites orbit among “enormous amounts of space...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
We know it is going to happen because it is already happening: a new space economy generating wealth, jobs and products that benefits all humankind. Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space industry, today at 350 billion USD, will be 1 trillion USD in 2040. From...
by Nuno Gomes | Jun 3, 2022 | Events, News
The Portuguese Space Agency is organizing the 5th edition of the New Space Atlantic Summit, a conference that has already become a key event for the promotion of space technologies. Under the slogan Making Space for a Sustainable Earth, this year’s edition,...
by Nuno Gomes | May 19, 2022 | Call
In response to the war situation in Ukraine, the Portuguese Space Agency – Portugal Space, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) and ANACOM decided to launch the Express Ukrainian Call, a solidarity initiative in the context of the ESA BIC Portugal programme. The activity aims...
